Court's Ruling a 'Clear Signal' About Mass Surveillance Programs, Experts Say

The ruling last week by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that the NSA’s years-long bulk collection of phone metadata is illegal is a “clear signal” that courts are moving in the direction of striking down some mass surveillance programs, experts say. The decision, issued Thursday, is among the...

Tor Browser 4.5 - Everything you Need to Safely Browse the Internet

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the kernel-patch-2.4-i2c operating system from Debian GNU/Linux. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the i2c-2.4.27-4-k7 package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the i2c-2.4.27-4-686 operating system package for Debian GNU/Linux. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Updated tor packages fix security vulnerabilities

"disgleirio" discovered that a malicious client could trigger an assertion failure in a Tor instance providing a hidden service, thus rendering the service inaccessible CVE-2015-2928. "DonnchaC" discovered that Tor clients would crash with an assertion failure upon parsing specially crafted hidde...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3216-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Paper: NetFlow Data De-Anonymizes Tor Users

Tor Project leaders are trying to rein in concerns about an academic paper describing an end-to-end traffic correlation attack that could be used by a well-funded attacker such as a nation state to de-anonymize traffic on Tor. Executive director Roger Dingledine points out that the researchers...

National Security Letters Challenged in Ninth Circuit Court

In the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco Wednesday morning, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s EFF Kurt Opsahl urged the federal appeals court to uphold a lower court’s ruling that national security letters NSLs are unconstitutional. Regardless whether the ruling is upheld, the matter of NSL...

Updated tor package fixes security vulnerability

Tor before 0.2.4.23 maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a means of communicating information about hidden service name...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2993-1] tor security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2993-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Peter Palfrader July 31, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Design/Logic Flaw

Tor before 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a means of communicating...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5117

Tor before 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a means of communicating...

CVE-2014-5117

CVE-2014-5117 affects Tor: in Tor 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha, a client can be left with a circuit after an inbound RELAY_EARLY cell, enabling traffic-confirmation via RELAY/RELAY_EARLY patterns. Public advisories across multiple distros (Fedora/OpenSUSE/Mandriva) reference this vulne...

CVE-2014-5117

Tor before 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a means of communicating...

CVE-2014-5117

Tor before 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a means of communicating...

openSUSE Security Update : tor (openSUSE-SU-2014:0719-1) (Heartbleed)

tor 0.2.4.22 bnc878486 Tor was updated to the recommended version of the 0.2.4.x series. - major features in 0.2.4.x : - improved client resilience - support better link encryption with forward secrecy - new NTor circuit handshake - change relay queue for circuit create requests from size-based...

Researchers Build Undetectable Dopant Hardware Trojans

Is it so outlandish anymore to consider that an attacker interested in military, political or corporate espionage would be able to infiltrate a supply chain and drop malware onto an integrated circuit? Evidence of hardware-based Trojans is anecdotal at best, and experts believe a change in...

Decision in Street View WiFi Case Could Hinder Some Security Research

The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court last week to allow the class-action suit against Google over its collection of WiFi data to continue was welcomed as good news by privacy advocates, but it may have considerable consequences for security researchers who collect such data during legitimate...

Long range RFID hacking tool to be released at Black Hat

Out of necessity come many interesting inventions. Fran Brown, a year ago, was working a penetration test for an electric utility doing an assessment of its SCADA network. His first challenge was to get inside the facility, meaning, in short that he had to break in. To do so, he decided to test t...